Goethe as woman : the undoing of literature
"The most celebrated of German poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is today as much an institution as a writer. This innovative study shows unexpected relations between Goethe the artist and "Goethe" the posthumous tradition, and considers the radical historical metamorphosis of his textual being."
Print Book, English, ©2001
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
274 pages ; 24 cm.
9780814329481, 0814329489
45393485
Part I: Man and the Problem of Reading; 1. Werther and Montaigne Reading in the Aesthetic Sense; 2. Werther: Double Perspective and the Game of Life; 3. Egmont as a Politician; 4. Prometheus and Saturn: The Three Versions of Gotz von Berlichingen; Part II: The Undoing of Literature; 5. Lotte's Name and Lotte's Body; 6. Heroes and Fleabags and Women: Gender and Representation in Penthesilea; 7. Guerrilla Warfare: Goethe and the Future of Literature; 8. Bridge, Against Nothing: Nietzsche as Woman; 9. Goethe and the Possibility of a Feminist Literary Project; 10. Goethe in "Goethe": The Primal Scene